"Theeb" - Film screening & discussion with Nathaniel Greenberg

Thursday, April 20, 2017 5:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Cinema

THEEB

Film screening & discussion with Nathaniel Greenberg
Dept of Modern & Classical Languages

1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother, Theeb (“Wolf”), in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers’ quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long and treacherous journey. The young, mischievous Theeb secretly chases after his brother, but the group soon find themselves trapped amidst threatening terrain riddled with Ottoman mercenaries, Arab revolutionaries, and outcast Bedouin raiders.

Free and open to the public

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